Many conservatives have a loose relationship with facts. The right-wing denial of what most people think of as accepted reality starts with political issues: As recently as 2016, 45 percent of Republicans still believed that the Affordable Care Act included “death panels” (it doesn’t). A 2015 poll found that 54 percent of GOP primary voters believed then-President Obama to be a Muslim (…he isn’t).
Why are conservatives so susceptible to misinformation? The right wing’s disregard for facts and reasoning is not a matter of stupidity or lack of education. College-educated Republicans are actually more likely than less-educated Republicans to have believed that Barack Obama was a Muslim and that “death panels” were part of the ACA. And for political conservatives, but not for liberals, greater knowledge of science and math is associated with a greater likelihood of dismissing what almost all scientists believe about the human causation of global warming.___
Hey, i really appreciate that you acknowledge that. I also didnt think hed to that, i thought him more strategically minded.
I just loathe fellow comrades pretending that they are somehow superior beings for being socialist. Or falling for the propaganda of either anarchist socialists or state communists, believing that a regime cannot do anything wrong just because they adhere to a certain ideology. I too fall for this trap.